Important story explaining how this Ebola outbreak got so big before coming to global attention - and, unfortunately, that the vaccine for the Zaire strain won’t work.
@kakape.bsky.socialI’ve been trying to understand what we know and don’t know so far about the concerning Ebola outbreak in DRC.
Still lots of uncertainty at the moment but here‘s what I have been able to find out so far.
Story is here (thread coming later):
www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Major outbreak of rare Ebola virus species in northern Congo alarms scientists
No vaccines exist for Ebola Bundibugyo, which has caused 80 suspected deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and one in Uganda
